Massively's Best Of 2022 Awards: Best Pseudo-MMO Of The 12 Months

Massively's end-of-the-year awards proceed as we speak with our award for the best Pseudo-MMO of the year. That is at all times a difficult category since it forces us to define MMOs. This year, we opted to make eligible any on-line recreation that isn't a pure and conventional MMORPG, video games we'd cover in Not So Massively: mobile MMOs, console MMOs, OARPGs, MOBAs, MMOFPS titles, MMORTS titles, and so on. And naturally, the game must have launched in 2014. All of our writers were invited to forged a vote, however not all of them selected to do so for this class. Do not forget to forged your personal vote within the just-for-enjoyable reader poll on the very finish.

The Massively employees pick for Finest Pseudo-MMO of 2014 is...

@nyphur: Elite: Dangerous. Although there's no offline mode, the graphics and gameplay in Elite: Harmful do look superb, and it is impressive what they've managed to realize on a fraction of the price range that Star Citizen has. It remains to be seen if the exploration factor of the game will reside up to expectations and if the online gameplay is compelling in the long term, however I am nonetheless cautiously optimistic about Elite: Harmful going ahead.

@nbrianna/blog: This 12 months was really slim-pickings for brand spanking new pseudo-MMO launches; Future just sucked the air from the room, and the sub-genres, like MOBAs particularly, are already fairly locked up by existing video games without a whole lot of room for newcomers. I might prefer to have voted for Marvel Heroes, but this yr's "2015" rebrand did not reeeeeaaaally make it a model-new sport. I'm not a TCGer, however I am going to throw in for Hearthstone. It is shiny, it is tight, and it reveals Blizzard hasn't forgotten methods to earn a living by sprucing the basics.

@Eliot_Lefebvre/blog: Crud, I don't know. Dragon Age: Inquisition has multiplayer; does that rely? I am voting for it anyway.

@jefreahard: Area Engineers. We do not really cover it, I suppose, but I want we did. Positive, it's space Minecraft, and what may possibly be higher? A few of the best gaming moments of 2014 for me involved a couple of associates, a non-public SE server, and the limitless creativity and addictive gameplay that SE continually fosters. Oh and a few Firefly-universe roleplay.

@Sypster/weblog: Hearthstone. Drawing from both the World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering pools of inspiration, Hearthstone rofflestomped its solution to domination. Wolfscript is all the extra amazing that Blizzard did this with a relatively small group and didn't shy away from using a free-to-play system that allowed players to earn in-game gold with out spending money. Plus -- and this should have gone first -- it's a terrific game that is playable cross-platform.

@MikedotFoster/blog: Dark Souls II. I do know Dark Souls isn't "online" in the way MMO players think of it, but From Software discovered some actually wonderful methods to combine different players into what's in any other case a single-participant experience. Invasions, co-op summons, and hilarious/useful/completely misleading notes are what make Dark Souls feel like a one-of-a-form title.

@MJ_Guthrie/weblog: For the enjoyable factor on prime of the nostalgia, my vote goes to LEGO Minifigures On-line! You get to build with LEGOs and destroy issues too, so it's double the enjoyable. And come on, LEGO minifigs! They are simply adorable.

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Our awards to date...

Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 6: Greatest Pseudo-MMO of the 12 months - Hearthstone

Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 5: Largest Disappointment - Tie: WildStar & ArcheAge

Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 4: Finest MMO Studio - Sony On-line Entertainment

Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 3: Most Improved MMO - Final Fantasy XIV

Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 2: Greatest Story of the 12 months - ArcheAge's melodrama

Massively's Best of 2014 Awards, Day 1: Most Underrated MMO - Elite: Dangerous